Lorene Scafaria

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name = Lorene Scafaria

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occupation = Screenwriter, playwright, actor, singer
nationality = American
notableworks = "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" (2008)

Lorene Scafaria is an American screenwriter, playwright, actor and singer best known for her work on the 2008 film "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist".

Biography

Early life

Scafaria was born and raised in Holmdel, New Jersey, where she first became interested in writing when she would write up a report on a completely fake book once a month to win Pizza Hut gift certificates from her school. She began to take an interest in storytelling and had written and produced her first play in Red Bank, New Jersey by the age of seventeen.cite web| url = http://www.donedealpro.com/members/details.aspx?object_id=127&content_type=1&section_id=11| title = Interviews: Lorene Scafaria| accessdate = 2008-10-06| date = April 27, 2005| publisher = "Done Deal Professional"| first = Will| last = Plyer] She attended Lafayette College in Pennsylvania for a year before switching to New Jersey's Montclair State University when she could no longer afford Lafayette's tuition.

Career

After moving to New York City, Scafaria wrote and put up a play at the Producer's Club Theatre called "That Guy and Others Like Him", in which she also played a role. Her writing agent had yet to find her a job, and so she took on more acting roles, appearing in many theater productions in addition to the films "Big Helium Dog" and "A Million Miles", among others. She sent out queries to twenty different agents seeking representation, one of whom replied and asked Scafaria to move from New York to Los Angeles. Even though she did not anticipate real success with the agent, she moved out and became roommates with screenwriter Bryan Sipe, who she had met making a film in New Jersey earlier. Neither of their work was considered "commercial" enough by studios, so they paired up to write a children's adventure film called "Legend Has It". Revolution Studios bought the screenplay but asked for a re-write which Scafaria described as "far less interesting", and the project was ultimately shelved.

In early 2005, Scafaria was hired by Focus Features to adapt Rachel Cohn and David Levithan's book "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" into a film of the same name. The screenplay was her ninth, but her first adaptation.cite web| url = http://blog.spout.com/2008/09/19/lorene-scafaria-interview-nick-and-norahs-infinite-playlist-toronto-2008/| title = Lorene Scafaria Interview, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Toronto 2008| accessdate = 2008-10-06| date = September 2008| publisher = Spout.com| first = Kevin| last = Kelly] She is good friends with fellow writers Diablo Cody ("Juno") and Dana Fox ("What Happens in Vegas"), who she collaborates with in their writing group they call the "Femmepire". She wrote Iraqi war docudrama "Sweet Relief", which is currently in production with Paramount Pictures and is set to star Kirsten Dunst in the lead role of Marla Ruzicka.cite web| url = http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117960570.html?categoryid=13&cs=1| title = Muccino mans Universal's 'Wife'| accessdate = 2008-10-06| date = March 5, 2007| publisher = "Variety"| first = Michael| last = Fleming] Her 2003 spec script "The Mighty Flynn" is currently in development at Heyday Films. She has also written "Man and Wife", which Gabriele Muccino is attached to direct. During the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, she recorded a voice-and-piano album called "Garden Party".

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